Naples: 1788.
Only edition. Onofrio Galeota (1732-c1800), Neapolitan pamphleteer, literary bedlamite, and object of vigorous society ridicule, found his calling in writing vituperative jeremiads against the social ills of Naples. He penned dozens of such pamphlets, railing against treacherous fishmongers, venal clergymen, and ordinary highwaymen. In the present pamphlet, Galeota.....

Stuttgart: Christian Gottlieb Rößlin, 1743.
An ordinary 18th-century German law book. Quite plain. Not especially well printed. Not even a first edition, but rather a third. But wait, what have we here? This looks like a quarto, not a twelvemo. Ah! A former owner, some time in the late 18th century.....

Paris: Jacques Barois, 1741.
[2711 lots, priced.] The auction catalogue of the diverse and well-balanced collection of Michel Peletier de Souzy [1640-1725], director-general of fortifications for Louis XIV. The collection was managed and expanded by de Souzy's son, Michel-Robert, until his own death in 1740. In those fifteen intervening years.....

Modena: 1774.
One of only a very few known publications issued by the Carpi foundling hospital, a beneficent organization inaugurated in 1690 near Modena for the care and agrarian education of local bastardini. The short pamphlet comprises essentially the set of regulations governing the management of the orphanage's farmland, especially.....

Lisbon: 1765.
Chapbook report of the trial and sentencing of one Jacintho Yorc for the "tyrannical" murder of his young wife, Luciana Kin, in Transylvania in July of 1765. Much of the reportage centers around the sensationally grisly torture and execution of Yorc, who was burned with red-hot irons, his.....